Simulated Effects of Genome Coverage
| Fold coverage | Average contig length (kb) |
| 0.5 | 0.85 |
| 1 | 1.0 |
| 2 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 4.8 |
| 6 | 17.7 |
| 8 | 65.8 |
| 10 | 226 |
[i] All simulation parameters other than fold coverage were set to default values (see Table 2). Average contig length excluded those contigs consisting of only single reads. The single-read contigs comprised only ∼0.1% of all reads.